The book, Malaysian Indians: Impact and Pain: Narration of an Unending Saga of a Marginalised Community, was launched on Oct 11.PETALING JAYA: Marginalised Indians, especially estate workers, have been left out of government programmes meant to uplift the community despite millions allocated to the Malaysian Indian Transformation Unit (Mitra), an author claims.
Janakey Raman Manickam.Janakey Raman Manickam, 78, in his latest book, Malaysian Indians: Impact and Pain: Narration of an Unending Saga of a Marginalised Community, questioned how Mitra could claim to have uplifted the community when many of its most vulnerable members remained excluded.
"These vulnerable, weak sections of the Indian community were never a part of Sedic or Mitra," he wrote, referring also to the government's former unit for socio-economic development of the Indian community (Sedic).
